Monday, March 19, 2012

What Shall I Wear?

These games will help to grow the brains of infants and toddlers. Whether it’s through singing, dancing, cuddling, rocking, talking, smelling, or tasting, you can encourage the pathways of their brains to make new connections.

FOR TODDLERSStories Come to Life
Creating and acting out a story makes it come to life and helps children internalizes the concepts in the story.

Read The Three Little Pigs or another familiar story to the children.
Read the story out loud and as you read, find one word such as huff, and say it in a loud voice.
Ask the children to act out the "loud" word when they hear it (by huffing). You can also use words that show emotion such as “happy” and “sad.”

Ideas to do to that will take this activity to the next level:For building confidence: “Who do you think has a loud voice in this story?”For developing the idea: “Can you pretend you are one of the pigs? Can you pretend that you are the wolf?”For moving forward: Could you tell me this story? What would come first in the story?”

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What Shall I Wear You will need a raincoat, heavy wool hat, bathing suit, and a lightweight jacket or dress.Talk with the children about the kind of clothes you need for different kinds of weather and seasons.Look at the articles of clothing and discuss when you would wear them.

Say the following rhyme:

What shall I wear on a rainy day, rainy day, rainy day?What shall I wear on a rainy day?This is what I’ll wear.(on the last line, choose a child to go to the clothing and hold up the correct item.Continue with a new rhyme.What shall I wear on a sunny day?What shall I wear on a snowy day?Download my song "Whatever the Weather" at Early Childhood News or at my website.

Ideas for taking this activity to the next level:For building confidence: What do you wear when it is cold outside?For developing the idea: Clothes protect us from changes in the weather. What did you wear to school today? Why did you pick these clothes?For moving forward: Let’s make up a story about a hot summer day at the swimming pool. What clothes shall we talk about?

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Jackie Silberg (also known as "Miss Jackie" from her television years) is a highly sought after workshop-seminar leader, motivational speaker, and performer. With degrees in Education and Child Development along with graduate work in Piano and Composition, she can entertain and inform with equal ease.

Jackie has worked with thousands of teachers, parents and children presenting keynote addresses, workshops and seminars and family concerts. She appears throughout the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore and Germany as a speaker, concert artist and talk show guest including appearances on NPR's "Parent's Journal" and "All Things Considered." Activities from her books appear regularly in parenting and early childhood magazines, college texts and journals.